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And…yet another “far right conspiracy theory” demonstrated to be true*.
Unusual post-covid-pandemic patterns of cancer and “turbo cancers”.
* Detection of “safety signal” requiring further investigation.
Video:
Paper:
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If I was a conspiracy theorist I would think that this Covid plandemic was cooked up by the CCP to debilitate the western enemy from the inside out over a many years time line. What I can’t understand is why so many useful western idiots whole heartedly implement their own destruction.
Don’t forget, China used an old style attenuated virus type vaccine for their people, not the Mrna one “developed” at warp speed for for the west.
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Del Bigtree traveled to Milan to screen “An Inconvenient Study” and returned with something he didn’t expect: firsthand testimony from Italian scientists, doctors, and media insiders confirming that the fear campaign that made Italy the terrifying face of COVID in early 2020 was manufactured, not organic.
The incentive structure that made the death count explode was identical to what happened in the United States: hospitals received five times the government reimbursement for a COVID diagnosis over any other, and every doctor who administered a vaccine injection received 80 euros per shot, enough to take a physician from 3,000 euros a month to 20,000.
https://x.com/HighWireTalk/status/2063246528718737549
Nothing to see, move along…
/GELFs
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Guess what Covid does to your P53 anti-cancer gene.
https://x.com/Partisan_12/status/2063547062130794910/
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You won’t get the data from official figures but there is a heap of evidence that China suffered more than the west. There is a coincident die-off of tens of millions of people. Instead of the quoted 1.4 B pop. it is now likely in the 500-700 M range and I have not heard above 800 from anyone doing the work. The lower figure sounds impossible but some think that.
Leis real talk has covered it.
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Well, they are named appropriately and accurately as Useful idiots. Just as the leftist pro Islam activists helped in the deconstruction on democratic, liberal Iran in the 70’s, equally useful idiots are assisting in their own and those around them demise in the modern west.
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So China wants a55% tariff on Australian beef!! How about Australia applies a 75% tariff to Chinese EVs, solar panels, wind turbines & electronics!!
Wishful thinking of course. We don’t have any politicians with the balls to retaliate!!
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The Tariff only applies to excess beef above their designated ‘quota’.
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As I understand it … the problem is that China arbitrarily reduced their ‘quota’ by, something like, a third this last year.
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The pre-Trump Yanks arbitrarily changed beef quotas too. Australia is easy to kick around. “But we signed that trade agreement LAST year”.
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Maybe Australia will apply a quota on beef exports to China and as with gas we could also add in an export tax of 25%!!! Our wonderful “ government” undoubtedly has many more economically suicidal tricks up its sleeves. 😵💫😵💫😵💫
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Nah. Australia will pay whatever it has to to get those beloved panels and bird choppers.
We’re a captive market – of idiots.
And they absolutely don’t care about borrowing unlimited amounts of money to buy more, what they cost.
As for the other things, the Left politicians would love to see us consume less of those as they WANT a reduced standard of living for non-Elites.
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We have to do our bit to encourage and support slavery
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Another example of international agreements that are unenforceable, terms and conditions apply but only when the signatory nations cooperate and stick to the agreement.
COVID-19 pandemic period and several leaders of nations together asked China for an inquiry into the source of that virus and the CCP Government reacted with bans on goods imported, Australia included.
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Beijing is trying to protect its own beef industry, the quotas are in place and our times up.
The Australian industry has been aware of this for a long time and have found alternative markets.
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How about we don’t import any renewable garbage and build new generation coal and nuclear plants.
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Nuclear technology is patented and we don’t own the patents and have no skilled workforce but we have the worlds best miners.
Edit: The second-hand Virginia subs will start training technicians.
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The Amish are making YouTube videos now.
Obviously they are catching up with the 20th century at least.
Interesting.
This is about stabilising rust using cheap chemicals.
The process involves tannic acid which converts the iron oxide rust into ferric tannate which is a stable durable, insoluble, blue-black polymeric substance coating the steel. The polymer is structurally based on chelated metal-ligand coordination bonds. (That was my interpretation, not from the Amish guy.)
https://youtu.be/x0fRqQctSsg
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There is a difference between the Amish and Mennonites … Mennonites embrace modern convenience whilst the Amish reject them.
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Had a wonderful meal at a Mennonite home in Pennsylvania some 35 years ago. They had electrickery, town water and central heating – but the produce they served was all home grown and tasted amazing.
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Not exactly true. The Amish are an odd lot, some are traditionalists, other groups or factions not.
Some shun “technology”, others bend the rules.
Can’t sit in the driver’s seat to drive a car?
No problem, we’ll drive from the back seat via linkages!
There’s lots of “Amish secrets” videos on uselesstube with interesting time-honoured tricks, like stopping mould growth with an earthed copper wire along your skirting board.
Hours of fun.
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9am NZ-time and no one’s commented yet? Hello… is there anybody out there…
Another day of perfect climate here: what are all these crisis numpties on about?
PS. Page has just loaded, slowly: a glitch in the system? Glad everything’s working fine – carry on.
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Triple-C (CCC™️) seems to be affecting Australia in the oddest of ways: even though the nation’s capital runs on 100% non-refundable horse manure, it’s presently 2 degrees BELOW zero (Celsius) while across the desert in the Great Far Western State, overnight snow showers are forecast for Bluff Knoll this evening as well as a touch more this Friday the 12th.
https://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Bluff-Knoll/6day/mid
[adjust height to 1,099m for summit]
Sadly there’s no ‘resort’ atop the Knoll – you huck it up, take your photos, you huck it back down – but could a kind sandgroper from WA let us all know, in tomorrow’s post, if the above prognostication / model bore fruit? Mucho Graciás!
* Are x-spurts still looking for the missing heat?
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You wouldn’t want to be up on Bluff Knoll at night, folks have been lost that way. Lugged my youngest on my back up there a long time ago – it’s an easy climb.
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This is a short video about the Yamnaya people, the ancient forebearers of Indo-European language and culture and who were among the first to use the wheel and “were the first (or almost) to domesticate and ride horses and who invented 4-wheeled, ox-drawn axeled wagons that enabled them to drive herds of cattle across the steppes and carry enough water and shelter with them to do so”. They also likely brought certain technologies to China such as the wheel, copper and bronze and the use of horses.
https://youtu.be/GalZLoTeU74
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In the magazine “World Nuclear News’ there is excitement over the fact that Uzbekistan has poured first concrete in the construction of a 2000 MW nuclear power station. It consists of 6 333 MW SMRs derived from the nuclear power plants in Russian ice breakers. They propose the first unit will be operating by 2029.
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/ceremony-to-mark-first-concrete-for-uzbekistan-smr
Where is Canavan and Taylor telling Australians what could be done far more cheaply than building bird mincers and panels?
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Three years to operating a new nuclear power plant. What were we told the lead time in Aus would be? One could get extremely depressed.😔
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They haven’t got the CFMEU or assorted levels of government and land councils “helping” They also wont find they are building, wouldn’t ya know it? on a sacred site.
In Australia we can only dream of being as developed as a Stan country.
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The 2024/25 CSIRO GenCost report suggests “at least” 15-years lead time, with 8 years in construction – but is careful to point out that construction of Vogtle 4 in the US ran out to 15 years and [eerie music] ‘First of a Kind’ projects in Australia take far longer than if anyone else does them.
The same timeframe apparently applies to SMR’s, which GenCost is careful to point out are not commercially available, are definitely FoaKed, and could not possibly be operational in Australia until at least 2040 because all the legislative, planning, location, and lawfare issues are exactly the same. So shut up about it and concentrate on emerging extended battery technology and solar-powered hydrogen electrolysers instead.
And utility scale nuclear is a mature technology so costs are bound to increase, significantly – as compared to everything renewable which will become much cheaper.
Almost free.
Apparently.
This mantra is repeated in the 2025/26 GenCost draft:
https://www.csiro.au/-/media/Energy/GenCost-2025-26-Draft/GenCost2025-26ConsultDraft_20251216-FINAL.pdf
Our finest scientific minds informing our smartest government Top Men.
Now, back to the ‘technology curve’ making green hydrogen an emerging major Australian energy resource…
https://research.csiro.au/hyresource/
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
SMR-NT is concerned that the Australian Governments, Federal and State, are not
receiving the complete up-to-date information to make an informed choice about the
engineering and economic factors for the best mix of technologies for electricity
supply.
For the GenCost 2023-24 report, CSIRO has again chosen not to receive expert advice
on nuclear costs. Aurecon has again provided expert analysis of all technologies except
nuclear. The last time that CSIRO obtained expert advice was from GHD in 2018 and,
as raised in every nuclear inquiry since then, the accuracy of that analysis was very
much in question, even to the extent that CSIRO admitted that the source of their high
overnight cost was unclear.
CSIRO has attempted to prove that nuclear is too expensive to consider by quoting the
cancelled UAMPS CFFP, but their analysis is misleading. We suggest that CSIRO should
engage a consultancy with nuclear experience to review their analysis before the final
version of GenCost 2023-24 is released. For example Hatch Consulting has extensive
nuclear experience in Canada, USA and UK
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https://www.smrnuclear.com.au/_files/ugd/c733f6_a46f1d38ea9c40648daac867049fa7b3.pdf
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The Dopes who did the Gen Cost Report have never built a Nuclear Power Plant so what the Fark would they know.
The South Moreans. An build one up and running in 8 years.
Obviously they haven’t Dean the CSIRO clap trap………..
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Whoops those typos.
South Koreans and
Read the reports…………
Abbhhhhhhhhh
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see SMR link
There is an example of a new nuclear reactor project in Australia. On 3rd September 1997
the Hon. Peter McGauran, Minister for Science and Technology, announced a replacement
research reactor would be built at Lucas Heights. The construction licence was issued on 4th
April 2002 by ARPANSA and the reactor entered production on 12 August 2006 – less than 9
years from decision to production. This multipurpose reactor (later named OPAL) is a much
more complicated project than a power reactor and was a First of a Kind (FOAK) project.
An international example of nuclear construction is the four APR-1400 power reactors at the
Barakah Nuclear Plant in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The decision to deploy nuclear
power was announced in April 2008 and construction of the first reactor completed in
March 2018, again within 10 years. This project was from a “standing start” with no nuclear
regulator or nuclear experience in the UAE, unlike Australia which has been involved in
nuclear since the 1950’s.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) provided extensive support to the UAE as
they did to Australia’s OPAL project and would do again when Australia starts its nuclear
power program.
As with the French nuclear power program in the 1970’s, it demonstrates that nuclear
projects can be completed in a ten-year timescale, if there is a will to succeed.
When Australia is looking at net zero by 2050, it is clear that there would still be time for
nuclear power to make a significant contribution to our low emissions future, particularly as
all the existing solar and wind plants will have to be replaced before 2050.
Development times for VRE projects and particularly supporting transmission can be long. In
their report for GenCost 2023-24 Aurecon note that the development time for offshore
wind is > 7 years.
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Even with Georgia’s Vogtle 4 taking much longer and costing a lot more, Georgia wants to build another Vogtle.
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From the young generation point of view those V.I.Lenin’s reactors were designed on the abacus at times of James Watt.
Not without problems they run for 30 years – until the ship’s hull rusted through and through.
The next Aus government will bring SMRs here, not due to good technology or costs, but because they will be that desperate.
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Australia is desperate for energy now but for when it becomes extremely desperate, Russians have a floating nuclear power plant, the Akademik Lomonosov which has two small reactors to produce 70MW electrical although this is in use.
However, they are developing updated designs to produce 100MW electrical.
These could presumably be towed to energy-poor Australia and hooked into the grid. Preferably moored in Sydney Harbour near Balmain where lots of wealthy Elite Green/Teal/Labor types live.
These compare with the GE TM2500 portable power plant which produces 35-37MW which can run on just about any liquid or gaseous hydrocarbon. It is built into two trailers plus needs other accessories on additional flatbed trucks.
The problem with that is Australia has almost no domestic oil, is mostly not allowed to drill for it and most of our gas is given away to other countries at some of the world’s cheapest prices* so we have a gas shortage as well. Plus even firewood collection is banned in many places.
Australia is regressing to the Dark Ages, both figuratively and literally.
* https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/how-australia-blew-its-future-gas-supplies-20170928-gyqg0f.html
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How easy would it be to just NOT destroy our coal fired stations and remove the cross subsidies so solar/wind have no incentive to push prices -ve.
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And if you wanted to generate less CO2, update to higher temperature boilers. Double the power and half the CO2 and half the coal required. But it’s never been about CO2 has it?
The same with the Great Barrier Reef. It’s not under threat and has never been under threat. And the attack on the farmers on the Burnett River has nothing to do with ‘saving; the reef.
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From Coalition Plan realised during the Dutton Opposition period before the 2025 election;
Australia is facing a huge gap in its ability to provide reliable and affordable electricity.
In 2023, fossil fuels contributed 63% of Australia’s electricity, and renewables contributed 37%. Solar and wind have been growing and will continue to play an increasingly important role in our energy mix.
However, there are limitations, because these energy sources only produce electricity when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining. And though we can store some of this energy in batteries or dams, storing very large amounts of electricity is very expensive.
Australia needs an energy system that supplies the right amount of energy all the time. Failure to do so results in blackouts and higher energy bills.
Our economy and the essential services we rely on, such as hospitals, telecommunications, water and sewerage and public transport cannot function without electricity that is 100% reliable.
While the percentage of coal in our energy mix has steadily declined, it continues to provide essential baseload power.
This means consistent electricity, around the clock – including when the sun doesn’t shine or the wind doesn’t blow.
Under Labor, 90% of this 24/7 baseload power will be forced out of our energy grid by 2035, without any guarantee of a like-for-like replacement.
The Australian Energy Market Operator is warning of the increased risk of reliability gaps, meaning blackouts or brownouts. Power bills have increased by up to $1,000 more than the Albanese Government promised.
Labor’s all-eggs-in-one-basket ‘renewables only’ approach wrongly assumes that one technology class alone can do the job.
Yet Labor’s renewable energy target – 82% renewables by 2030 – is considerably behind schedule. Labor’s climate target of 43% emissions reduction by 2030 has become unachievable.
A plan is needed to reduce power prices and secure clean, cheap and consistent energy for Australians.
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Liberal Plan
https://www.liberal.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/The-Oppositions-Plan-for-Energy_Nov2025-web.pdf
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Dennis,
You like this plan do you? I’m guessing you’d hate it if it had “Labor Party” as the author, even though it was a change to branding and nothing else.
The thrust of it would be more appropriate as a Labor Party document. It’s socialism applied to power generation, where Canberra will try to dictate the mix of energy sources for the whole country. Where were they going to get the competence to do that?
It’s a fair example of why Lib/Lab is known as the Uniparty.
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Please provide a link to the One Nation Plan For Energy
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https://www.onenation.org.au/lowering-prices-households-business-industry-australia
Surprisingly, it focuses quite tightly on those things that a Commonwealth government actually can control.
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So another mission statement, where is the Plan For Energy?
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Dennis,
Amazing!
The ON statement lists 12 actions that can be ticked off as done when they are completed. That sounds like a plan. The second action is a bit waffly and, FWIW, I don’t agree with the fourth. Still, it’s their plan.
The Coalition statement, by contrast, is a pile of waffle which lays out motherhood “principles” but precious few actions. Just because they wrote “plan” in the title doesn’t make it a plan.
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Dr. F beat me to that –
Repeal Australia’s federal ban on commercial nuclear power.
Include nuclear energy as a major component of Australia’s future electricity mix alongside coal, gas and hydro.
Support construction of a large nuclear reactor on Australia’s east coast. One Nation has specifically proposed one advanced pressurised-water reactor of about 1,400 MW capacity, citing South Korean reactor projects as a cost benchmark.
Support development of newer technologies such as Small Modular Reactors (SMRs).
Maintain strict safety and environmental standards.
End the Net Zero policy framework and reduce subsidies for renewable energy projects.
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So copied from Coalition Morrison then Dutton and now Plan For Energy.
Apart from retaining coal power stations and other already installed technologies a plan for seven nuclear, five large multiple generators and two small plants to be built on existing locations already approved for purpose and with transmission lines connection nearby.
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To be fair, the Liberal Energy policy seems to be to go ‘hands off’ the generation and distribution side and hope for the win. Probably the best aspect from that is to repeal the prohibition of nuclear generation.
The worry is that a Liberal-led Coalition plans to spend bulk OPM picking technology winners. Presumably to prop up whatever emerges from whatever market response there is to a squidgy, quavery policy environment that still includes the zombie AEMO driving the existing renewables-focused ‘market rules’.
Our approach is technology-led. We will
prioritise scalable solutions such as carbon
capture and storage, commercial and
industrial solar, low emissions metals, soil
carbon, biofuels and advanced nuclear.
We will modernise the mandates of the
multi-billion dollar Clean Energy Finance
Corporation and Australian Renewable Energy
Agency so they can invest across the full range
of low emissions technologies that deliver
results.
Hey Grok: list the names of scalable low emissions technologies that do not appear in current Labor policy documents…
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It is not very clever for Australian future electricity generation to be determined by people picking winners, when the decision makers commonly have little relevant knowledge of power technology or economics. They rely basically on picking winners in the preferred promotional propaganda contest. It is all so childish and wrong and expensive.
We need someone with knowledge, skill, money and influence to take to Court those Liberal and Green people who did a dirty little deal in the Morrison era and legislated to ban nuclear for Australia. This was, by objective standards, an illegal act, an abuse of power for personal gain. We have to stop this rot.
Geoff S
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Being 6 x 333MW configuration it should be quite good for variable output too, which is one of the lies told by the anti Nuclear / Pro wind & solar crowd that nuclear isn’t good at variable output for it to follow their precious weather dependent, intermittent energy convertors.
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Trump’s ‘angry’ phonecall with Nɛtn¥āhū last week.
Anyone else sceptical of that reporting?
Was it just play-acting to fool the masses? Make Trump look strong, in command … instead of under the direction of a foreign leader.
Which one is the real Alpha Male?
With President Reagan, you didn’t have to ask. There was no doubt Reagan was the alpha male!
When he ordered Menachem Begin to get his forces out of Lebanon, Begin obeyed.
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I’m skeptical bordering on totally cynical of ALL reporting.
I also try to listen to what people say and then watch what they do. I believe a good reporter does the same but they are a precious few.
I rate Trump to be WAY, WAY more a man of his word than almost anybody else involved in the grubby game of government.
And one of the reasons I rate Trump so highly is that he is quite open that EVERYTHING is a deal.
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‘Anyone else sceptical of that reporting?’
Not me, it all happened as reported by individuals in the vicinity.
Now that full blown war has broken out again, Donnie needs to put his foot down on bibi. The CIA reports that Israel is spying on the US Administration and I believe that too.
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Trust your sources at your peril.
And I’m pretty sure the CIA are on their own side. Frequently they seem to accuse others of things they are doing themselves, for example spying on the US Administration.
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I was reminded of a similar story that happened last year that’s why I asked the question.
Remember the 12 Day War? Kicked off in June last year. For a month beforehand there were stories in the media about a ‘rift’ between Trump and Nətan¥ahū.
Then the war started and Trump bragged right away about being in “a team” with Nəta¥ahū.
The ‘rift’ fake news was quickly forgotten.
Is Axios the conduit for seeding these stories into the media? I know it’s been suggested.
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Axios is joined at the hip with the Trump regime, but at the same time a good story is not to be sniffed at.
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It could be true, Trump speaks that way. No big deal.
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FWIW
“New Study: Solar Photovoltaic, Wind Power Fail To Meet Annual Energy Demands 62% Of The Time”
““Unlike dispatchable fossil-fuel or nuclear generation, solar and wind power output varies unpredictably with weather conditions, leading to mismatches between supply and demand.” — Sargentis et al., 2026
New research utilizes stochastic analysis to assess the effectiveness of renewable energy sources (RES) in satisfying energy demands in Greece.
Results indicate solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind power only meet annual energy demands 32% and 44% of the time, respectively. When electricity is needed to heat or cool a home, wind and solar power cannot deliver most of the time.”
“Furthermore, a greater penetration of RES is known to “increase reliance on fossil-fuel generation or increases the risk of blackouts.” ”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/07/new-study-solar-photovoltaic-wind-power-fail-to-meet-annual-energy-demands-62-of-the-time/
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Another contributor to this site (can’t remember who) pointed out that the most important figure when assessing renewables is their minimum generation figure. That is the only amount of power that can be relied on. I think he found that in Australia the minimum generated by renewables was less than 5% of nominal capacity.
I wonder which 5% of the population has first rights to the power?
Apologies if my memory is incorrect. I’ve tried searching for the post but without any luck.
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Sounds like Anton (Tony), working with Paul Miskelly and others. Tony’s average large-scale solar CF figure for the “National” grid was a bit under 17%.
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Jo also put out a post on 4th June about wind volatility.
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The quoted statement that “solar and wind power output varies unpredictably with weather conditions, leading to mismatches between supply and demand” is self-evident to me.
And that means that solar and wind need to be carefully engineered to take advantage of what they offer.
Windmills, for example, are ideal for pumping ground water into dams. They are very good even for remote applications where the power is transmitted from source to application in the form of electricity. They key reason is that the pumping is not particularly timing critical. All is well as long as the dam gets sufficient water by the required date.
Solar of course only works when sunlight is available. You either need to time the load (run your pool pump during the day) or store the power for when it is needed (via a suitably sized battery). And the vagaries of the weather mean that you must over engineer the solution and waste power when the sunlight is strongest.
Talking about blackouts suggests use of wind and solar on a grid scale. That is foolishness in the extreme.
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FWIW
“Canadian Wins “Lemon Law” Right to Return an EV Wrecked by Winter Temperatures”
“According to the report, EV company lawyers unsuccessfully argued the vehicle was never meant to be parked outside in winter.
Lucid Air Owner Won Lemon Law Case — Automaker Claimed The Car Wasn’t Built For Cold Weather And Cities”
BUT
“A word of caution – I haven’t found official records corroborating this story. Usually in cases like this I like to present a link to the court case or whatever. I don’t know what public records are available in arbitration cases, so there might not be any records to find, or the story could be a fabrication.
If the story is true, and if surviving outdoor winter temperatures is a legal expectation, I suspect Canadian EV companies could be in for a world of hurt. WUWT has reported multiple cases of EVs being bricked by a little frost.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/07/canadian-wins-lemon-law-right-to-return-an-ev-wrecked-by-winter-temperatures/
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I would think at the very least EV manufacturers would have to make some kind of prominent disclosure about their vehicles not being suitable to cold weather if they want to escape ‘lemon law’ liability for the cars bricking in winter. Similar to how cigarette manufacturers have to disclose ‘our product will eventually kill you’.
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What is the big deal ?
I believe that most ICEs require externally powered heating when left in those northern sub zero conditions overnight. Both sump heaters and special batterys also.
Many EVs now offer battery heaters as an option at least.
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The big deal is probably buried in the facts if the case that he won.
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If you know Climate Change™ (UN Trade Mark) is UN contrived utter nonsense then you should never vote for the UN-party. And Hollie Hughes explains exactly why starting 21 minutes in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlhLnZirN6g
Even with Abbott now the de-facto LNP leader, the LNP demonstrates its lack of conviction on anything and is not working for all Australians.
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They explicitly remain fully committed to the Paris Agreement so have ZERO credibility on energy policy.
They just don’t have a clue. They believe in nothing and fight for nothing and are perpetual fence sitters.
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“My job as the incoming Liberal Party president will be to try to ensure that the organisation is in place — the members, the candidates, the funding — to make Angus Taylor the prime minister,” he said.
“The party president is the organisational leader, not the political leader, but I don’t think there’s ever been a party president who’s taken a vow of silence, and I’m certainly not going to start.
Tony Abbott
National President Liberal Party of Australia
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The Liberal Party does not have a specific 2030 emissions reduction target and plans to remove Labor’s 43% target, while the Australian Labor Party has committed to a 43% cut by 2030 and net zero by 2050. In contrast, the Australian Greens aim for a 75% cut by 2030 and net zero by 2035, indicating that the Liberal Party’s approach is less ambitious compared to Labor and the Greens.
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“My job as the incoming Liberal Party president will be to try to ensure that the organisation is in place — the members, the candidates, the funding — to make Angus Taylor the prime minister,” he said.
“The party president is the organisational leader, not the political leader, but I don’t think there’s ever been a party president who’s taken a vow of silence, and I’m certainly not going to start.
Tony Abbott
National President Liberal Party of Australia
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Please remove double post
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“They believe in nothing and fight for nothing and are perpetual fence sitters”
Yes, typical politicians in a typical political party. They invent differences between them and Labor to pretend voters have a choice.
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Are you aware that Liberal National Coalition parties are the Opposition and alternative government with a leader, deputy leader and a full shadow cabinet opposite every government position in Office of Prime Minister and Cabinet, and that One Nation has one leader, no deputy leader and no shadow cabinet?
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They are career politicians in the Westminster System, its the best we can muster.
Of the three tier system of government, federal, state and council, which one can we eliminate without too much disruption?
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Councils, local government, are controlled by State governments and Ministers for Local Government. The website addresses are referenced to state government.
Federation of States are what created Commonwealth of Australia, and the States created the Commonwealth or Federal Government.
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Okay, a lot of council responsibility could be picked up by the states.
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A lot of rural/regional councils have very little in common with the central urban CBD councils in the state capitol cities.
Responsibility would require local knowledge and local needs.
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True, so keep the infrastructure but stop electing real estate agents to become mayors. State governments should be able to handle it, they are already deeply involved with councils across a whole range of disciplines.
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The first thing Councils say if you propose anything like a common sense approach is “oh but we have to comply with the Local Government Act”
Fine then, let’s stop pretending then and be State Government agencies, and….
– get rid of HR, Finance, Procurement and IT which would be State shared services
– get rid of overpaid middle managers with tiny spans of control
– spend more on real front line services, less on back offices
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‘They just don’t have a clue.’
In fact they are acutely aware that saying CO2 doesn’t cause global warming is political suicide.
The Coalition cannot pull out of Paris until One Nation puts it on their platform, but they lack the scientific support necessary to liberate a harmless trace gas from MSM abuse.
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‘It is clear to us that climate research needs to continue, but after thirty years of work by the IPCC there is insufficient evidence of global warming of the kind claimed by the IPCC and there is insufficient evidence of the climate catastrophes predicted.
‘We are the only political party to question climate science. One Nation Senators have taken every opportunity to use the Senate Estimates cycle, to understand the position of government advisers on climate science like CSIRO.’ (One Nation)
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The coalition has a major trust problem. It is all well and good for the ‘progressives’ to remain silent until after an election while the conservatives present a conservative attracting set of policies to win an election. It could very easily resemble the current Labor Party which, as Garret said prior to a former election: “Don’t worry about the policies, we will change everything once we win the election!’
So long as the liberals have enough ‘progressives’ elected to control or split the Party, it cannot be trusted. That’s the problem it created for itself since the outflow of conservatives became a flood and were treated as idiots as they left. Talk about hubris and slow learners, they destroyed themselves the moment they dumped Abbott. They concreted their fate by their labor light – or heavy – governance when in power. Especially under Turnbull who is still costing the nation a steadily increasing fortune as the costs of Snowy2 escalate and the costs to industry and homes rises remorselessly by chasing renewables. Bowen is out of control but Keane was no better.
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FWIW
“FORMER UK PM: UNELECTED BUREAUCRATS ARE MAKING ALL THE DECISIONS
Elected governments do not truly run the country, says former Prime Minister.”
https://harryr.substack.com/p/former-uk-pm-unelected-bureaucrats
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Nooo… tell me Yes Minister wasn’t a documentary! Surely not! Oh wait..
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Which is why Trump is so reviled by establishment bureaucratic/administrative types. He’s the only 21st century politician from a developed western nation who threatens their stranglehold on power. They’re terrified he’s going to go full Javier Milei (Afuera!) or heaven forbid full Nayib Bukele, and more importantly, he might inspire other elected politicians to do the same.
The administrative state is the greatest threat to democracy.
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There is the book and stage play on President Truman called “Give ‘Em Hell Harry”. I saw the play and once had the book.
IIRC in there he looked at how elections change the top couple of layers of the US government and concludes that its stability came from the layers below those where staffing was pretty well unchanged.
He might decide differently if he were to get a look at the system currently
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More Iran winning!!!
USD/IRR = 1,375,186.14
Average price of gasoline in USA USD1.08 per litre.
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Yes all those US imports must be terribly expensive
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..and, just as Big Z goes to visit the 3Es, Germany, France and Britain for another round of begging, for some reason Russia apparently bombed Chernobyl.
“Russian forces have struck a fuel storage facility at the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine on the eve of talks in London about the need for stronger air defence to shield targets from missile strikes.”
Yup, that makes perfect sense, no reason for a false flag here…
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the move as an “extremely vile” Russian attack using a Shahed drone in what he termed a deliberate move. “Russia deliberately struck this particular nuclear infrastructure facility,” he said before arriving in London for the talks with leaders from Britain, France and Germany. “As of now, there are no readings exceeding normal background radiation levels. But there is certainly an increase in Russia’s brazenness, which long ago went off the charts.””
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/extremely-vile-russia-strikes-chernobyl-nuclear-plant-as-zelensky-meets-european-leaders-20260608-p604oc.html
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Whatever happened to those 100+millions of Europeans who were going to die because of the original Chernobyl explosion (as said in 1988/89)?
Big Z wants lots more money, which most EU countries cannot afford.
Was Putin pointing out that any “accident” to Chernobyl might make voters in the EU very unhappy, and unlikely to want to pay more?.
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Parties to any battle would do well to study the law of natural consequences.
Advanced thinkers might consider the wisdom set out in The Art of War. Really advanced thinkers might consider that The Art of War will NOT give a single unambiguous path to victory and that when defeat is inevitable it is best to come to terms without delay.
Or more plainly stated Z and his rhetoric are not advancing the cause of his nation.
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‘ … not advancing the cause of his nation.’
That is pathetic, clearly you haven’t read the Art of War.
Ukraine has finally got the upper hand in this war and it should be over once Crimea falls, but Putin intends to blow up Chernobyl and spread radioactive material across Europe.
The effect would be catastrophic, but that is what rats do when cornered, Orwell’s dystopian madness in technicolour.
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Whether you believe I have read The Art of War is of no consequence to me. But of course you are welcome to put forward arguments based on its contents if you think it is worthwhile.
More importantly, inflamed passions can lead to poor advocacy. Perhaps we can revisit this topic in a year’s time.
For the record I repeat my opinion that the sooner the Ukraine sues for peace the better for all concerned.
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“Suing for”, in this older sense of the phrase, means “pleading or petitioning for”. Suing for peace is usually initiated by the losing party in an attempt to stave off an unconditional surrender. The nation holding the upper hand may find, in the losing party’s offer of making peace, an opportunity for relief from the necessity of having to continue to wage a costly war.’ (wiki)
In March 1856 Russia sued for peace and it’ll be the same on this occasion.
The siege of Crimea for a speedy end to hostilities.
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Cheers Gordo.
Have you checked your predictions on something smaller, say on this week’s lottery numbers?
Mine proved utterly useless on any matters of consequence so it went out in the rubbish. I haven’t missed it.
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Crimea is never coming back. Ukraine is virulently anti-Russian these days, and more than three-quarters of Crimea’s population is Russian speakers (and that’s before the war, it’s probably higher now). The only way Ukraine gets Crimea back is if they occupy it and ethnically cleanse all the Russians out of existence. Same goes for Donetsk and Luhansk in the east, where 85%+ of the population are Russian-speakers.
Ukraine has spent the past four years poisoning the vox populi against all things Russian. You can’t speak Russian, teach Russian, broadcast in Russian, you can’t even refer to Russian cultural events or worship at Russian orthodox churches. And let’s not forget this whole mess started 12 years ago when western Ukrainian agitators deposed the guy (Viktor Yanukovych) who Crimeans and eastern Ukrainians voted into office.
Why would any of those Russian-speakers in Crimea/Donetsk/Luhansk want to return to Ukraine and be systematically repressed and disenfranchised?
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Where have you been, Steve, these 5 years ?
After leaving school I can hardly say couple of Ukrainian sentences correctly, all my family, friend and co-workers were the same.
Today., just like Zelenskys, many, who stayed there prefer to speak Ukrainian.
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‘ … return to Ukraine and be systematically repressed and disenfranchised?’
Ukraine wants to join the EU so there won’t be any systemic repression in Crimea.
Its like this, once the Russian Federation collapses the EU will spread east and independent states come into existence. They have been under the Russian yoke for too long and should prosper in a free market.
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We agree on Ukraine at least. Crimea will fall. Russians in Crimea who can find a tank of gas will use to to get back to the Homeland.
Better for us, but we don’t have a dog in the fight. Who will guarantee them peace? Russia is a proven l!ar.
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There is not a racist bone in my body and I hate what I will say next:
Compare the number of people with Russian names with those of Jewish, Ukrainian or Chechen origin in Putin’s mafia and make your mind .
Nothing in that brother-killing war ia about culture, religion or language.
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“Nothing in that brother-killing war is about culture, religion or language.”
Yes, its like some other nations were pushing them into war…
Putin has always said that ‘the Ukrainians are us’, and that’s why he tries not to kill civilians. Imagine a bombing raid in WW2 where 4 people were killed, and yet Russian drone raids kill so few.
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No guarantees H.
The best I think they can do is to come to agreements where they both benefit from cooperation.
And as in any dispute both sides hang on to grievances against the other at their peril.
Of course things are complicated by external parties who gain from conflict. Just as in a schoolyard where the protagonists are surrounded by people shouting fight, fight. And not many will deny that is the situation now.
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The US military industrial complex does very well, but few people in America are ‘shouting fight, fight.’ In Israel and Iran there are hawks who want to totally destroy the other side, its a holy war and bibi is taking Donnie for a ride.
By comparison Putin will sue for peace because he only has imperial ambitions in a very unholy war.
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‘Who will guarantee them peace?’
NATO and EU.
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They guaranteed peace when they organised Ukraine’s de-nuclearisation.
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Nice one centurion.
Oh wait. You’re serious!
You’ve read the manual. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
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NATO is a defensive organisation and the EU is a commercial block, so Ukraine will become the military industrial complex of Europe. This bulwark against hegemony will guarantee the peace.
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Re “Ukraine has finally got the upper hand in this war”
As in the upper hand is the one that does the spanking?
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Eye for an eye! You hit Chernobyl then I hit a nuclear power station in Russia. A stupid game but a necessary response, especially if that station hit in Russia is somewhere near where Putin is underground -to drive home the point. Hit it with a dummy just to show that’s not a good way to go.
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If only Basil could stop mentioning the war. But of course the germans started it by invading poland.
I like your idea of firing blanks as a warning. The gentle art of persuasion.
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Zelly is nothing.
Worry about Bab el….fish… 🤭
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You know those times on various media and blogs like this you have the climate alarmists who use the appeals to authority. They will say the IPCC, NASA, NOAA or god forbid Al Gore or David Attenborough say we’re in a climate emergency or equivalent. In Australia they might quote the BOM or even CSIRO. Counter with the statements from 4 very eminent Nobel prize winners.
Svente Arrhenius , Chemistry 1903. He said more CO2 will provide “more equable and better climates” and “more abundant crops”
Ivan Geiver, Physics 1973, “ I would say that, basically, global warming is a non problem”.
Kary B Mullis Chemistry, 1993. He said our global model circulation predictions are “wrong by a large factor“
John F Clauser, Physics 2022. “Climate change is not a crisis”.
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So you counter their authority with your sources of authority rather than pointing out basic facts like:
Climate has always changed and always will because earths precession of the orbit ensures it.
Oceans cannot sustain above 30C over an annual cycle, which means all climate models are wrong.
Ocean heat uptake in the SH is levelling off and trending toward decline within the next decade.
Greenland is gaining altitude above 2300m.
All these facts are confirmed by observation.
I also like to ask – how is global warming impact you today. The scare has been going 50 years now and humans have rear view of numerous predicted extinction events in those 50 years. Because the predictions were all based on nonsense.
Today in Melbourne (Moorabbin), the forecast high is 17C and the minimum 10C. The June daily max is 23.8C and daily minimum -2.2C. So well within the range today after 50 years of Globull Warming. The maximum was recorded in 2007. It was a glorious day as I recall.
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You telling me something I don’t know already?
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FWIW
“The Common Medication To Stop Taking So Casually, Hepatologists Say”
Panadol
https://health.yahoo.com/conditions/liver/articles/hepatologists-warn-against-casual-acetaminophen-145000375.html
Via https://instapundit.com/801936/#disqus_thread
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FWIW –
“The One Nation Effect” explained?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKK6422WYAAMNRj?format=jpg&name=900×900
Via https://instapundit.com/802052/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“Ongoing Fallout from Nowak Murder Case
June 7, 2026 | Sundance | 307 Comments
The context and details of the Nowak murder case continue highlighting what cultural Marxism does in policing when combined with aggressive Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) demands.”
Concludes
“I still think the worst part of this legal dynamic was the judge in the case ruling the video taken by the killer as he murdered his victim was, “too disturbing to be shown” as evidence. The killer recorded himself doing the killing, and that evidence could not be shown to the jury because it was “too disturbing,” yet the jury was tasked with making a decision on whether the accused was guilty or not. Think about it. Beyond insane judicial logic.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/06/07/ongoing-fallout-from-nowak-murder-case/
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Updated August 8, 2025
The Paris Agreement is a diplomatic agreement that brings the world together in a common effort to combat climate change. The most important piece of this agreement is that all members must make pledges of action every five years to lower their greenhouse gas emissions. Those pledges are called their “Nationally Determined Contributions” (NDCs). For example, the European Union’s most recent NDC pledges to cut emissions to at least 55% below 1990 levels by 2030.
But while countries are required to submit these pledges, the content is up to them: Members get to decide for themselves what to promise in their NDCs. So what would make a country make a strong pledge and then stick to it?
The short answer is that there’s not much formal accountability. Instead, says Michael Mehling, Deputy Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, the focus is on accurate reporting. “Every country has to send periodic reports on what they’re doing,” says Mehling, “in the form of national emissions inventories and progress towards achieving their NDCs.” The main formal consequence for a member failing to meet its targets is a meeting with a global committee of neutral researchers. The committee will work with struggling members to create new plans.
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The more I read of the insanity of Climate Change action, the more I am convinced that apart from the easily led, it is a cover for disruption, energy and food dismantiling of all Western democracies.
I have not found a shred of truth in “the” science. But the Labor in Victoria have changed our Contitution to prevent us ever using our coal? This only make sense if we doing it for China. Changing nothing less than the Victorian Constitution to wipe out coal, nuclear, seam gas,.. And to stop the Electricity Commission, founded on coal, to not be involved in fossil fuels makes nonsense of the push to restablish the Commission.
As Peter Ridd explains, the attack on farmers around Bundaberg has no connection whatever to the Great Barrier Reef. None.
And Snowy II makes no economic sense, which it should as it goes over a projected $42Billion and twice the time taken to build the Channel Tunnel.
The attacks on farmers across Europe are equally devastating and unjustifiable, driven by the EU/UN who have admitted their Armageddon story was implausible, but are doubling down? Why?
94% of the world’s population are not ‘decarbonizing’. So 500 million people out of 8 billion halve their CO2 output? Why? 40% comes from China anyway and they are adding at least one coal power plant a week until 2030.
Coal will be the new gold. And our Labor party is making sure no one can touch it. Why?
Is this the Art of War?
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‘ 94% of the world’s population are not ‘decarbonizing’. ”
Decarbonising was done by our dads on a Saturday by lifting the head on our old Austin A40 or Morry Minor side valve engine, and giving the head and tops of the pistons a good scrape.
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Decarbonizing a V10 at the moment. Modern direct injection into the cylider means the PCV oil in the intake air coats the inlets and valves. Environmental stuff creates a carbon mess.
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Interesting- I’m decarbonizing a 1.6L 16-valve and found that carbon build-up on the valve seats was holding the exhaust valves open enough to drop the compression so it wouldn’t start.
I can’t decide if its crappy fuel these days and/or camshaft overlap as there is soot getting back into the inlet system ports.
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My Camry is the most reliable/best car I’ve owned by a country mile. BUT….
My 1.6L 16-valve Rover badged Honda is where my heart remains. I can’t recall the number of times I told Mrs H to keep up the revs and pointed to the taco. lol Our dog could hear her change gears turning into the street.
Our fuel, both petrol and diesel is crappy. I do so few miles now I only half fill my tank hoping it won’t go off.
https://www.reddit.com/r/regularcarreviews/comments/omkux4/1986_rover_416i_hatchback_official_car_of/
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It’s the decision to feed oil vapour from the crankcase into the inlet manifold but the petrol directly into the head and the inlet valves are not washed.
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Slight disagreement with your outstanding comment.
“The more I read of the insanity of Climate Change actios, the more I am convinced that apart from the easily led, it is a cover for disruption, energy and food dismantiling of all Western democracies.”
I think the ‘dismantiling’ is primarily a psychological result of the self hatred that is the result of runaway affluence.
Do doubt there are outside forces pursuing the demise of the West, but I think it is more these outside forces taking advantage of the existing trend in the Western intelligentsia.
Such as your response to #22.
I’ve since 2016 been interested in the bizarre reaction to “Make America Great Again”.
It is in fact a relatively benign campaign sales slogan.
I don’t quite get why it is so triggering to the global progressive intelligentsia.
Had said intelligentsia not reacted to it in such a hysterical manner, we likely would not be here.
And we would still be heading headlong over the Net Zero crazy cliff.
But as fate would have it, a weird guy with weird hair showed up and grabbed the wheel and slowed it down a bit.
Climate Change and Pandemic appear to be managed political events.
Or the shared moral panic hysterical actions of an isolated by affluence social class.
My own daily experience with this social group tilts me toward the they’ve just lost their minds explanation.
And there aren’t enough therapists and psychoactive drugs to fix it.
And the advent of those things likely helped create the situation in the first place
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And “not to ideology like Maga”. MAGA is a plain aspirational motto, nothing more. I do not like this quote from Australian politician Andrew Hastie. It is wrong.
MAGA is obviously not an ideology like communism/fascism/socialism/islam. Ideology is “a systematic set of beliefs, ideas, or doctrines that shapes how a person or group understands the world and acts within it” MAGA does not have manifesto and books on MAGA and people with PhDs in MAGA. There is no little red book, or Das Kapital.
Freedom and justice and small government, low taxation are also simple ideas, not ideologies. But we are increasingly told that if you aspire to recover greatness for your country, you are an ideological looney.
I think the key is in AGAIN, after the depradations of socialists who hate Western judeo-Christian values who have done massive social damage in America, Canada, Europe and Australia/New Zealand Climate religion is just another socialist fantasy at heart. And it’s a simple reversal, blame the objector. South Africa and Zimbabwe are looking around for someone to blame as they drag once peaceful and successful countries into tribalism and real violent and state sanctioned racism.
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And as a direct consequence of the Trump effect “Keir Starmer plans to cut UK net-zero spending to fund defence boost”. Ha!
“Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is preparing to cut UK government spending on net-zero projects such as carbon capture and storage to pay for an increase in defence spending, prompting another rift with Energy Secretary Ed Miliband.”
Who is driving Ed Milliband and Chris Bowen? It’s not politics. And I don’t accept sheer stupidity as an explanation. No one is that stupid. Who is paying them?
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The first thing any new government has to do, Reform or One Nation, is repeal all these fake Climate laws. And as they are cascaded, repeal Gillard’s Carbon Credits, which will bring down a whole conga line of carbon cartels. And then disband all the government departments created by endless carbon legislation. And wind farms can pay for their own transmission lines. And the ones already built. Australia cannot have the highest ratio of public servants in the world without real justification. They are taxing each other in a death spiral, now going for the trusts, savings. Superannuation is next and the Future Fund for public servants.
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Reform Australia is only a splinter group.
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Andrew Hastie has been reading the Art of War.
‘Our first loyalty must be to the Australian people. Not to international institutions, not to ideology like Maga – but to the Australian people, first and foremost.
‘The United States is a close ally but we should always be frank with our friends, and speak up for the national interest. The truth is that President Trump’s war in Iran hasn’t gone to plan. That’s not controversial to say that.
Citing Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan, Hastie added:
‘Pauline Hanson’s problem is that she is Maga first, even when the Australian people suffer the economic consequences.’ (Guardian)
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Iran? What plan? Who has this plan? The Iran government announced it was 4 weeks from having a nuclear warhead. And despite declaration of a fatwa by Khameni against long range missiles, had the ability to deliver that nuclear warhead anywhere in Europe with a two stage missile. So what Plan?
Iran has blocked the straits of Hormuz before. And have promised to destroy Israel for nearly 50 years.
However Trump is trying to settle it all without destroying Iran, without destroying the Gulf states and oil prices are under control. It was not a question of if Iran demanded payment for the Straits of Hormuz and total control over the Middle East, but when.
Now without water, oil pipes about to freeze solid, ships unable to move, electrical rationing to one light bulb per house and despite mass murder of its own citizens, Iran is being dragged to the table. And they are interdicted in every region, their bank accounts frozen, ships immobilized. That’s how to fight a modern war, while keeping everyone safe, even the Iranian people. The IRGC have been sending billions overseas. They will follow soon or face the wrath of their own people.
So the self appointed Western experts and Democrats inist Trump has lost and Trump should give the Iranians everything they want. Of course. The are the very people who allowed Khameini to get so close to killing millions. And unlike Kim Jong Un and Putin and Xi, they would do it. Trump took out the Hitler of the region. The IRGC are his SS. We should be vastly relieved and hopeful Trump can end it peacefully with a deal, not giving solace to the monsters.
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Putin had a plan to take all of Ukraine in a few days with the SMO and Trump reckons he would bring about regime change in Iran and there will be a popular uprising.
Who has this plan? Not those two clowns.
‘Iran has blocked the straits of Hormuz before.’ Its a key element of their military strategy.
‘And have promised to destroy Israel for nearly 50 years.’ Its a never ending holy war and they have the same god, humanity has not advanced one iota in thousands of years. A pox on both their houses.
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I would be ashamed to quote the Guardian as an authority on politics.
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Congratulations to Mr Hastie.
He just described Trump’s ‘America First’ policy. That is as MAGA as it gets. Every country should look out for the interests of their own citizens first, and look for opportunities where the interests overlap with the interests of other nations. Stop doing things where you sacrifice the interests of your citizens to ‘save the world’ from nebulous hobgoblins that are cooked up by think tanks, NGOs, and international institutions. America should be ‘America first’, Australia should be ‘Australia first’, Japan should be ‘Japan first’, the UK should be ‘UK first’, Brazil should be ‘Brazil first’, Indonesia should be ‘Indonesia first’, etc.
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Hastie thinks Donald is a tosser and MAGA has nothing to do with Australia.
If Pauline wants One Nation to succeed then she’ll have to drop any association with the Trump regime.
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“If Pauline wants One Nation to succeed then she’ll have to drop any association with the Trump regime.’
What, when our petrol is $2.50/L and America’s is $1?? Electricity is 18c/unit there and 40c here?? The UN is crippling our country and taking over our National Parks while Trump is kicking them out?
People will start to feel Trump is doing very well for the American people and we need someone like him!
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Eventually?
I agree.
But probably not in his lifetime. No one will really appreciate him until he is gone. We won’t get an honest assessment of his presidency until the current generation of TDS progressives and MAGA conservatives are retired and some Generation Alpha or Beta historian with no personal animus/reverence for Trump writes a definitive account of his presidency. Millenial historians are too invested in their love/hate for the man, and most Zoomers have been far too exposed to a decade of media propaganda about him to be detached from personal bias.
The same was true when I was growing up as a Gen Xer. We weren’t around for Kennedy’s ‘Camelot’ so we didn’t buy into the hagiographic view of him as a Christ-like savior that was being foisted upon us by boomers, and same goes for the Satanic view of Nixon that was dominant during our childhoods. Kennedy was far from the perfect martyr that he was made out to be, and Nixon was no more crooked than any other politician (he was just the guy who was dumb enough to get caught). The same is true for Trump. He’s not the ‘great man’ hardcore MAGA folks believe, and he’s not the pastiche of Hitler/Mussolini/Pinochet that establishmentarians on both sides and progressives/leftists believe him to be.
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I realize he hates Trump. My point is, his solution to Australia’s problems is very Trumpian … whether he realizes it or not.
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FWIW
“Claim: Large Scale Wealth Redistribution is Required to Tackle Climate Change”
““… the share of global wealth held by the poorest … would rise from just 2 percent today to 30 percent, while the proportion held by billionaires would fall …”
Could tackling climate change and levelling inequality go hand in hand?
The world can raise income, reduce inequality and limit global warming, according to an ambitious roadmap presented this week by economists in France. Making the case for a radical transformation of economies and lifestyles, they call on rich countries to slow growth, phase out fossil fuels and tax the wealthiest to help poorer countries fund development and mitigate the effects of climate change. ”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/07/claim-large-scale-wealth-redistribution-required-to-tackle-climate-change/
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“economists in France. Making the case for a radical transformation of economies and lifestyles” …while they sit there sipping lattes powered by nuclear plants…
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Looks like my source was right (#13.4)…
Bab el-Mandeb closed to anyone pro-Israel.
ZH just running the story now.
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Well, this is why people are voting for Pauline Hanson-
“(This is when) the average person no longer believes policymakers have control of the situation. They see rising living costs, unaffordable housing, expanding geopolitical conflict, and governments continuously funding war while domestic economic conditions deteriorate. Financial markets may remain elevated because capital continues concentrating into large institutions and government-supported sectors, but the underlying population is increasingly under pressure.
CONFIDENCE collapses before economies do. Once public trust begins breaking down, political instability follows shortly afterward. That is why these numbers are far more important than most analysts currently understand. Consumer sentiment is not merely a survey. It measures confidence in the future itself, and people no longer believe the future improves from here. They see endless war, endless debt, collapsing affordability, and politicians completely detached from reality.”
Martin Armstrong-
https://www.activistpost.com/american-consumer-confidence-cracks-as-the-war-cycle-intensifies/
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